Nobel Peace Prize: the message behind Navi Pillay’s win
The awarding of the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize to South African jurist Navanethem “Navi” Pillay matters for reasons that go well beyond the laureate herself.
The award does three things at once.
First, it restores credibility to the prize.
Second, it rejects in unambiguous terms the Thrasymachian doctrine that might is right, which has become the operating philosophy of major powers.
Third, it highlights a warning of what happens when a hegemon decides it is above the law.
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